No. 18 Baylor MBB Hosts No. 12 Arizona

Fri Dec 6 10:30:56 CST 2019

Complete game notes attached.

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18/16 BAYLOR BEARS (6-1)
Location: Waco, Texas
Conference: Big 12
Head Coach: Scott Drew<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=378> (Butler, 1993)
Roster<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?path=mbball> | Stats<https://baylorbears.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats> | Game Notes<https://baylorbears.com/documents/2019/12/6/BU_MBB_Game_Notes_19_20_08_ARIZONA.pdf>
BAYLOR (6-1) vs. ARIZONA (9-0)
Dec. 7, 2019 • 11 a.m. CT
Waco, Texas • Ferrell Center (10,284)
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WATCH: ESPNU and ESPN app
Talent: Rich Hollenberg (pxp), Jimmy Dykes (analyst)
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Talent: Pat Nunley (pxp), David Kaye<https://baylorbears.com/staff-directory/david-kaye/34> (analyst)
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12/11 ARIZONA (9-0)
Location: Tucson, Ariz.
Conference: Pac-12
Head Coach: Sean Miller (Pittsburgh, 1992)
Roster<https://easternshorehawks.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster> | Stats<https://arizonawildcats.com/documents/2019/11/6/2019_20_Arizona_Basketball_Season_Stats.pdf> | Game Notes<https://baylorbears.com/documents/2019/12/6/GM10_12_7_19_atBaylor.pdf?id=15223>

STORY LINES
• No. 18 Baylor hosts No. 12 Arizona at the Ferrell Center for the first time since Dec. 8, 1997.
• The game is on ESPNU with Rich Hollenberg and Jimmy Dykes calling the action.
• BU and UA are meeting for the 10th time. The Bears won 58-49 in Tucson on Dec. 15 last season.
• Baylor became the first team to hold Arizona below 50 points since Feb. 26, 2011. The Bears snapped UA's 52-game home winning streak and out-rebounded the Wildcats 51-19 (19-5 offensive boards).
• Mark Vital had 17 rebounds, more than the 14 by all Arizona players combined (UA had 5 team rebs.)
• Saturday is BU's 9th non-conference home game vs. a ranked team in program history (5th-highest ranked).
• Saturday is the 4th all-time matchup of ranked non-conference teams in Waco – No. 25 BU vs. No. 16 Vanderbilt (2015), No. 9 BU vs. No. 7 Xavier (2016) and No. 16 BU vs. No. 8 Wichita State (2017).
• 30 NBA Scouts from 22 different teams have requested credentials to Saturday's game.• Arizona allows the nation's fewest steals by pct. (4.9), while BU's defense ranks 19th in steals (13.0).
• Baylor leads the Big 12 and ranks 7th among Power-5 teams (25th overall) in 3-point shooting (.396).
• Baylor's defense has forced 15+ turnovers in 6 of 7 games after doing so in 7 of 34 games last year.
• BU ranks 19th nationally in turnover margin (+5.6) and 20th nationally in defensive turnover pct. (24.5).
• Baylor is 11-5 against Pac-12 opponents during the Drew era — 1-0 vs. Arizona, 4-0 vs. Arizona State, 2-1 vs. Colorado, 2-1 vs. Oregon, 1-0 vs. USC, 1-2 vs. Washington State and 0-1 vs. Washington.
• BU won its third tournament title in 4 years by beating Villanova to win the Myrtle Beach Invitational.
• Baylor is 1 of 6 Power-5 programs to win 18+ games in each of the last 12 seasons since 2008, joining Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan State and North Carolina.
• Jared Butler's 134.8 KenPom offensive rating leads the nation among players with a 24%+ usage rate.
• Baylor is 42-11 in games against non-Big 12 teams over the last 4 seasons since 2016-17.
• BU is the only school with FB, MBB, WBB & VB all ranked. Those teams are a combined 50-4 this year.
• BU is No. 18 in the most recent AP Top 25 and has been ranked in all 5 AP polls this season.
• Head coach Scott Drew is in his 17th season in Waco and is BU's all-time wins leader (322-210).
• Drew is coaching his 533rd game at Baylor (322-210). His .605 winning percentage is best in BU history among coaches with 40+ games, and his teams have a .671 winning percentage since 2007-08 (288-141).
• Baylor is playing its 219th game as a ranked team under Drew – BU was ranked in 2 of 2197 games over the program's 97 seasons prior to Drew. Since 2008-09, BU has been ranked in 216 of 398 games.
• Baylor is coming off its 10th 20-win season in the last 12 years. The Bears were a No. 9 seed in the 2019 NCAA Tournament, where they knocked off Syracuse before falling to No. 1 seed Gonzaga.
• Baylor has been in the Preseason AP Top 25 in 7 of 10 seasons since its first preseason ranking in 2010-11.
• BU was picked 2nd in the Big 12 Preseason Coaches Poll, tying the highest in program history (2012-13). The Bears were picked 9th in last year's poll, but overcame a multitude of injuries to finish in 4th place.
• BU has advanced to the postseason in 8 straight seasons, tied as the nation's 10th-longest active streak.
• Baylor is 101-8 in non-conference home games since 2007-08, including 62-4 since December 2012.

QUICK HITS
• BU returned 8 letterwinners from last season, including 5 players who made at least 7 starts – Mark Vital (34), Jared Butler (21), Tristan Clark (14), Freddie Gillespie (11) and Devonte Bandoo (7).
• Baylor returned 9 players with at least 26 games of Division I experience, including a pair of transfers who are now starters after sitting out last season – Davion Mitchell and MaCio Teague.
• Eight of Baylor's 14 players either have used or are currently using a redshirt year. Five after transferring to BU – Flagler, Gillespie, Mitchell, Tchamwa Tchatchoua and Teague, and three as freshmen — Moffatt, Turner and Vital.
• Eight of Baylor's nine starting point guards under Drew have earned All-Big recognition (14 of last 15 seasons).
• BU is 42-72 against AP-ranked teams since 2007-08 after going 0-27 in Drew's first 4 rebuilding seasons.
• Baylor is 12-23 against AP Top 10 teams since March 2012. BU started the Drew era 1-26 vs. top-10.
• Baylor has defeated 7 top-10 teams in the last 3 seasons, including a 6-3 mark vs. top-10 teams in Waco.
• Baylor is 33-4 when leading at halftime over the last 3 seasons since 2017-18.
• Baylor has won 88% of its games when leading at the half since 2011-12 (151-20).
• Baylor has won 20+ games in 10 of the last 12 seasons after recording only three 20-win seasons in the previous 100 years of Baylor Basketball (1946, 1948, 1988).
• The Bears are one of 11 programs nationally (1 of 6 in Power-5) to win 18+ games in every year since 2008.
• Baylor is 1 of 14 teams nationally to appear in every postseason since 2012 (6 NCAAs, 2 NITs).
• BU is 94-21 since 2015-16 when leading at any point in the 2nd half of a game (6-1 this season).
• Baylor is 197-94 over the last 9 seasons, averaging 24 wins per season since 2012.
• Baylor's 197 wins since 2011-12 are second-most in the Big 12 behind only Kansas (242).
• Baylor is 288-141 since 2007-08, the first year Drew's staff had a full allotment of scholarships.
• Baylor is 5-1 all-time in Big 12/SEC Challenges, the best record of any team in either league.
• Baylor has the nation's 11th-longest active streak with at least one 3-point FG made in 910 straight games — the last time Baylor failed to make a 3-pointer was more than 29 years ago, on Feb. 21, 1990 vs. Texas Tech (0-8).
• BU has recorded double-digit non-conference wins in 11 of the last 12 seasons (all except 2012-13).
• Baylor has won 6 tournament titles under Drew (2007 Paradise Jam, 2011 Las Vegas Classic, 2013 NIT, 2016 Battle 4 Atlantis, 2017 Hall of Fame Classic and 2019 Myrtle Beach Invitational).

SERIES HISTORY
• Saturday's game is the 10th series meeting between Baylor and Arizona and the first in Waco since Dec. 8, 1997.
• Arizona leads the series 5-4, including a 1-1 mark in Waco (1970 BU win, 1997 UA win).
• Baylor's wins in the series were in Dallas on consecutive days on March 12-13, 1948, in Waco on Dec. 11, 1970, and in Tucson on Dec. 15 last season. Arizona won in 1947, 1949, 1969, 1993 and 1997.
• Saturday is the first time Baylor has been ranked when facing Arizona and the third time UA has been ranked vs. BU.

LAST TIME VS. ARIZONA
• Baylor snapped Arizona's 52-game home winning streak with a 58-49 win in Tucson on Dec. 15 last season.
• The Bears became the first team to hold Arizona below 50 points since Feb. 26, 2011.
• BU had a 16.5% win probability when trailing 26-20 early in the 2nd half, but out-scored UA 38-23 the rest of the way.
• Baylor won despite committing 20 turnovers and turning Arizona's 10 turnovers into only 2 points.
• BU out-rebounded UA 51-19, including 19-5 on the offensive glass, and BU had a 19-2 edge in 2nd-chance points.
• The Bears shot just 27.6% (8-29) in the first half, but came back at 63.6% (14-22) in the 2nd half.
• Mark Vital had 17 rebounds, more than the 14 rebounds grabbed by Arizona players (UA also had 5 team rebounds).
• Makai Mason had a game-high 22 points, while Brandon Randolph was UA's only double-figure scorer with 15.

NON-CONFERENCE MEETING OF RANKED TEAMS
• Saturday is the 4th time in the last 5 seasons a non-conference matchup of ranked teams has been played at the Ferrell Center during the first week of December.
• No. 25 Baylor defeated No. 16 Vanderbilt, 69-67, on Dec. 6, 2015.
• No. 9 Baylor defeated No. 7 Xavier, 76-61, on Dec. 3, 2016.
• No. 16 Baylor lost to No. 8 Wichita State, 69-62, on Dec. 2, 2017.
• Saturday is the 9th time a ranked non-conference opponent has visited Waco – No. 12 Arizona (2019), No. 8 Wichita State (2017), No. 7 Xavier (2016), No. 16 Vanderbilt (2015), No. 6 Washington State (2007), No. 21 Purdue (2004), No. 6 Arizona (1997), No. 20 Oklahoma State (1958) and No. 14 Wyoming (1951).
• BU is 3-5 all-time in non-conference home games against ranked opponents (2-3 in Drew era).

KENPOM STATS HIGHLIGHT MATCHUP OF ELITE OFFENSIVE PLAYERS
• Jared Butler's 134.8 KenPom offensive rating leads the nation among players with a 24%+ usage rate, while Arizona's Zeke Nnaji (125.5) and Nico Mannion (123.9) rank 7th and 9th, respectively, on that same list.
• KenPom Offensive Rating (ORtg): A measure of personal offensive efficiency developed by Dean Oliver. The formula is very complicated, but accurate. For a detailed explanation, buy Basketball on Paper.
• KenPom Percentage of Possessions Used (%Poss): A measure of personal possessions used while the player is on the court. Simply assigns credit or blame to a player when his actions end a possession, either by making a shot, missing a shot that isn't rebounded by the offense, or committing a turnover.

DREW'S CREW VS. THE PAC-12 CONFERENCE
• Scott Drew has posted an 11-5 record against Pac-12 teams while at Baylor, including wins in 4 of the last 5 meetings. The Bears won both games against Pac-12 teams last year – 58-49 at Arizona and 57-47 vs. Oregon.
• BU has faced 7 Pac-12 teams under Drew: Arizona (1-0), Arizona State (4-0), Colorado (2-1), Oregon (2-1), USC (1-0), Washington State (1-2) and Washington (0-1). BU is 4-1 in home games, 4-3 at neutral sites and 3-1 in road games.
• Baylor's wins were vs. No. 14 Arizona State (2008-09), at Washington State (2008-09), at Arizona State (2009-10), home vs. Arizona State (2010-11), vs. Colorado (2011-12), home vs. Arizona State (2012-13), vs. Colorado (2013-14), home vs. No. 4 Oregon (2016-17), vs. USC (2016-17), at Arizona (2018-19) and home vs. Oregon (2018-19).
• Baylor's losses against Pac-12 teams under Drew were at home vs. No. 6 Washington State (2007-08), vs. Washington State (2010-11), vs. Colorado (2012-13), at No. 25 Oregon (2015-16) and vs. Washington (2019-20).

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David Kaye | Assistant AD for Communications
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
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